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From its early days, Bryn Mawr has had an international reputation in classical languages and archaeology, and the College is home to a lively community of undergraduates, graduate students and faculty who are interested in classical subjects. Weekly classics colloquia provide an informal meeting ground as well as a schedule of distinguished speakers on a variety of literary, archeological and historical subjects.

Spring 2009 Schedule - print version

COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE
Spring 2009

Unless otherwise noted, all Colloquia will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Room B21 of the Rhys Carpenter Library on the campus of Bryn Mawr College. Tea will be held at 4:00 p.m. before the lectures in the Quita Woodward Room, which is in Thomas Library. For more information please call: 610-526-5198; or e-mail ocardona@brynmawr.edu

February
6

Kathryn Gutzwiller
University of Cincinnati & Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton

"Ethnicity and Genre in the Epigrams of Meleager"

poster
13

Corinne Bonnet
Université de Toulouse II Le Mirail & Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton


"The Tophet Question and Punic Identity"

poster
20

Joannis Mylonopoulos
Columbia University

"Between Word and Image: Post-Burial Rituals in Literature and Art"

poster
27

Tom Tartaron
University of Pennsylvania

"Mycenae's Principal Saronic Harbor? Investigations at Korphos-Kalamianos
2007-2008"

poster
March
20

Susanne Ebbinghaus
George M. A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art at the Harvard University Art Museums

"The Polyxena Sarcophagus from the Troad: Life and death of a heroine"

27

Agnes Michels Lecture
presented by the graduate students in the Department of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies

Anthony Woodman
University of Virginia

Title: "Intertextuality in Tacitus"

michels poster
April
 

T. Leslie Shear
Princeton University

"Architecture for Democracy: the Earliest Civic Buildings of Athens"

poster
*9

George Huxley
Honorary Professor of Greek, Trinity College Dublin

"Ulysses Redux": why the Island called Ithaki today, is Homer's Ithaca"

* Please note: This lecture is on THURSDAY, and will take place in Thomas 110.

poster
17

The Restless Dead and the Perfect Tomb: A Symposium

Tzvi Abusch, Rita Freed, Sarah Iles Johnston

 
24

C. Densmore Curtis Lecture
presented by the graduate students in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

Monika Truemper
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title: "No women allowed: bathing, luxury, and pleasures in the Hellenistic world"

poster

COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE
Fall 2008

Unless otherwise noted, all Colloquia will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Room B21 of the Rhys Carpenter Library on the campus of Bryn Mawr College. Tea will be held at 4:00 p.m. before the lectures in the Quita Woodward Room, which is in Thomas Library. For more information please call: 610-526-5198; or e-mail ocardona@brynmawr.edu

September
12

"Student Reports from Fieldwork and Programs Abroad"

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19

Martin Revermann
University of Toronto

"Brecht and Greek Tragedy"

(Co-sponsored by the Class of 1902 Lecture Fund)

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26

Gary Farney
Rutgers University

"Italic Identity in the Roman Republic and Italian Social War Propaganda"

poster
October
31

Quentin Letesson
Université Catholique de Louvain and the Belgian American Educational Foundation

“Genotype and Phenotype: an Analysis of Neopalatial Cretan Architecture”

poster
November
7

Chris Faraone
University of Chicago, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

"Magic and Medicine in the Roman Imperial Period: Two Case Studies"

poster
14

Corey Brennan
Rutgers University

"New light on the Classics at Bryn Mawr: the Autobiography of T.R.S. Broughton (1900-1993)"

[Classics Majors Tea]

 
21

Casper de Jonge
University of Leiden, Center for Hellenic Studies

"Myth, Memory and Models of Identity: Niobe and other mythological exempla in Greek tragedy"

December
5

Alain Gowing
University of Washington

"Romulus: The Early Years"

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